True life is stranger than fiction. My Spanish friend Borja discovered this when we visited a 1,200 year old church in the Basque country.

The previous day, Borja's friend had said he sees ghosts. Borja couldn't accept ghosts exist, not until he experiences one himself.

That's the strange thing with humans - even if their best trusted friend says they've seen a ghost, most won't believe in ghosts unless they see one themselves. It was the same with me. I never believed until one appeared on the bonnet of my parked car, and my friend's wide opened eyes and mouth was evidence enough she saw the same ghost as me! Borja's first experience came today in the empty 10th century Estibaliz church, near Vitoria. A clear organ note played constantly. Expecting to find a music player, we searched for the source. But the organ wasn't plugged in - Borja tried playing it! There was no sign of another source. The music continued...Suddenly, Borja exclaimed, "Can you feel that?"

"No," I replied. "Wow, it's really strong. It's stroking me down my back..." He paused. "Oh, it's gone!"The second he said it had gone, I felt my back stroked, a physical touch, as if someone ran their hand up and down my spine. "I've got it now," I said, and explained the sensations."That's exactly the sensations I had... Oh...! It's come back!""Yes," I said. "It's left me." And so it continued for a few minutes, stroking first one then the other, until it left. Borja was excited. He'd experienced something for the first time. "Who's there?" he called out. As his echo died, he called again, and again. There was no response. Borja changed his question. "If there's someone there, can you play different music on the organ?" Suddenly, the constant organ sounds stopped. An eerie silence reigned...

"I can see something over there," I said, pointing to a pillar on the right.

"Me too," said Borja. "I can feel it there. And up there." He pointed to a window. "And by the door," I said. "There're two here..."I took out the camera. You never know on these occasions if anything comes out, but it's always worth a shot!Back home, we downloaded the photos to the laptop. After adjusting the sizes to inspect them easier, we discovered potential evidence!

By the pillar on the right was a misty shape. Another misty shape hung in the doorway. Above Borja as he pretended to play the organ, and by the window were unmistakable perfectly round orbs. Orbs are considered by many to be ghosts appearing through the ether in spherical form.http://ghoststudy.com/a_what_are_orbs.html

Borja now believes in ghosts - we'd experienced this one with three of our senses - hearing, feeling and seeing. But I have little doubt that when he tells friends why he knows ghosts exist, they won't believe him.

Easter may feel long ago already, but in the Basque country of Spain it's a truly religious event. Crowds gather to watch processions of 15 floats portraying Stations of the Cross - important stages in the last days of Jesus.

In Vitoria, crowds gathered in the Cathedral, singing heartily from memory, Spanish Catholic songs relevant to each Station. After each song, silence reigned.

Occasionally a bearded man sang solo in the passionate Basque language. Each time he sang, no-one moved, as if spellbound. After, came loud clapping.

It all honours the reality of the 15 most important moments of Jesus's last days, and respects the symbolic significance for each Station in our lives.

Consider how each of these 15 Stations may be relevant to a part of your life.1. Jesus is condemned to death. This is our failures - lost job, doomed marriage, lost football game. We die, symbolically. 2. Jesus carries His CrossAs mature adults we are responsible for our own lives, for our own failure, and we carry our burdens. 3. Jesus falls the first time Due to personal failure, we can collapse under the weight of our burdens.4. Jesus meets His MotherWe do not blame parents or others, and accept full responsibility for our suffering, failure, and pain.5. Simon carries the cross When we are at our lowest, God or someone will help us through our difficulties. 6. Veronica wipes Jesus' face with her veilEven in times of darkness, God wants us to be comforted.7. Jesus falls the second time The path to Resurrection is never easy. 8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem Our personal problems will affect other people.9. Jesus falls the third time Everything goes in threes, and three is the spiritual number. 10. Jesus is stripped of His garments In our losses, we are stripped of money, dreams, achievements, friends and family. 11. Crucifixion: Jesus is nailed to the cross Nails signify being merged with your death, pain, failure, at one with terrible darkness. 12. Jesus dies on the crossOur marriage, job, hope, dies. 13. Jesus' body is removed from the crossWe leave our job, marriage, etc, lifeless behind us. 14. Jesus is laid in the tombOur past is buried. That chapter of life is closed.15. Jesus lives again after resurrectionWe resurrect and find new relationships, opportunities, jobs. New life never stops.

These 15 Stations of the Cross are symbolic of all aspects of our lives, that constantly twist and turn. Think of an aspect of your life. Which Station are you on now?

Whatever it is, be certain of one thing - the next Station may not be far away...

Millions of people, the day after Easter Monday, continue their lives exactly as before Easter. They've had their chocolate eggs and family gathering, and perhaps personal penitence and public festivity. Hierarchy of churches might even have sent a message to beckon their flock to help our world. Then that's it, until next Easter.

Perhaps thoughts could arise, in a similar way to how Jesus rose from the dead. Think about this - resurrection can be literal, or symbolic.

1. Jesus rising from the dead literally shows human existence does not end with physical death. Even 2,000 years later, countless people have visions of Jesus. On my courses, during lectures, and in life, Jesus has literally appeared to show the reality of life after death, and the beauty of His healing and LOve. That shocks some people who did not believe before. Sometimes, literal truth is only understood when experienced... 2. Stories of Jesus appearing after his death to disciples and others to help them, shows humanity can literally appear after death too. If you don't believe your friend who said, for example, they saw their dead grandmother's soul or spirit appear, perhaps you should think of Christ's resurrection and think again!3. Resurrection is also symbolic. Be inspired that like rising from the dead, you can resurrect your life. Resurrect your happiness, health, finances, relationships and dreams in different more useful ways. Fulfil unconscious desires to do good before you die. Leave behind satisfying outcomes of a time on Earth that was well-spent.

Perhaps it's time to switch off the TV, or stop whatever you do too much of, simply to pass time. Maybe it's time to resurrect your life, to be more angelic, more useful to our world before you resurrect after death.

Here in the Basque country of Spain, Easter has spiritual significance, even in foods. Traditionally, no meat is eaten, to respect the flesh of Christ dying on the Cross.

Local families meet and prepare to parade around the city centre with huge statues of Christ on the Cross. These families wear symbols of their Easter organisation - golden crosses that are handed from father to child throughout generations.

It's a pleasure to experience sharing of community respect for Godly LOve.

Easter is a time for LOve. It's a time to remember that one man held such deep principles of helping others, he died. Now I'm not suggesting we all die too. But it would not hurt anyone to go out into the world and relieve suffering with LOve more than you're doing right now.

The word LOve is different to the word love. You can 'love' anything. At Easter you can love an Easter egg, love your family gathering, love a special Easter meal. But you can only 'LOve' in one way - that is, to think and speak and act in the most kind and caring and Godly way.

At Easter, continue to 'love' chocolate and everything else human pleasure brings. But like Jesus, seek ways to LOve those who are suffering, the poor, needy and sick, and all less fortunate than you.

There's a common saying that if we have problems we should look on the bright side, because there's always someone worse off. Well, for someone somewhere on this planet that saying does not apply. There truly is no-one worse off than them!

Be an angel. Be Christ-like. Be spiritual. Be LOve. At Easter, seek someone who cannot find anyone worse off than them, and help however you can, with LOve.

At UK's Stansted airport, before going through X-ray, I stood by a table where passengers left non-allowable liquids. Since a terrorist tried to destroy a plane in mid-air by mixing chemicals together from bottles in his hand luggage, all liquids must be 50 ml maximum and fit in one small see-through plastic bag. So perhaps it was not surprising that a man rushed over, placed two brand-new boxed jars of anti-wrinkle night cream on the table with receipt, and rushed to the X-ray. Maybe he had no space in his plastic bag, I thought. But I do. They look expensive and will make good presents.

As the saying goes, 'God giveth'.

Through the X-ray, in W H Smiths duty free store, one book described latest Ebook publishing methods. At £6.99 you can always learn. At the till, the assistant said, "Sorry, we can't take card today." "Could you take plastic instead?" I joked.

"We can't take card today," he repeated seriously.

"It was a joke," I smiled. "Card and plastic are different materials. So I asked if you'd take plastic instead of card."

"I never joke with customers. The last time I did, the guy took it the wrong way and I ended up with this." His brow creased into a deep frown as he pointed to a scar near his eye.

"You're kind," he said, without smiling. He scanned the price of the book as healing energy soaked into his being.

"It's your lucky day," he said suddenly. "You get this book for free."

I accepted, puzzled. Was the £6.99 book really free that day? Or had he given me the book for being kind about the being punched? Or had healing his trauma with energy had an unexpected consequence?

Whatever, as the saying goes, 'God giveth'.

Waiting for the plane, early morning frost outside was replaced by glinting sun. The cold airport lounge heated up. I placed my warm knitted jacket over my luggage to buy some water. When I turned back, the jacket had gone, stolen.

Oh well, I thought, I hope someone needs it. The value of the anti-wrinkle creams and book was about the same as the jacket. God giveth and God taketh away.

Synchronicity is a number of uncommon things that happen unexpectedly in fast succession. Uncommonly this week, four people with books inside them unexpectedly popped from their covers to portray to me their plots.

It's said everyone has a book inside them. The problem is, most cannot plan a book, let alone write or publish. They stumble in their darkness of lack of writing knowledge, perhaps starting to write, then stopping when they realize they have no writing training. They fumble with lack of ability to plan or self-critique. I used to. It's normal.

It's not normal though for four people to open their hearts and trust someone with their book ideas. It's an honor. It's always an honor to be trusted, but to be trusted with seedling works of art is more so, because of natural fear of theft of copyright.

So due to copyright, I can't explain the books' detailed contents. Interestingly though, all four books are on healing cures, from different angles. As my passion is to cure problems doctors can't, I was excited to help.

My previous blog mentioned two prospective authors - a healer and a born-again Christian. I met both this week.

The healer's natural gifts are powerful. He told stories of instant cures, of a long-term sick girl in a bar cured in seconds. Her entire face looked different after, like a different child. Her parents thanked him profusely, as he dealt with the queue of interest in the bar. That's how it is with instant cures of tough conditions. Troubled, pained expressions are smoothed and calmed in moments. He told wonderful stories, excellent material for a book. Doctors don't have answers to everything. The world needs to know such cures are possible.

I met the born-again Christian again on Sunday. He also told marvelous stories of how Jesus helps his healing gifts. One of his gifts are to see. For example, seeing black spots on arthritic knuckles, praying for the blackness to go, seeing it leave, and leaving the woman cured. He wants to write how Jesus heals through him. Doctors can't help everything. The world needs to know such cures are possible.

On Saturday, Janice said now is her time. Her healing and therapy centre in Barbados has recently taken off. She used Reiki to cure a local doctor of a long-term condition. The doctor was so shocked she didn't have to suffer any more, the doctor asked Janice to teach her Reiki. Janice mentioned other cures she's achieved. "Has any healer in Barbados," I asked, "written a book on their healing cures?" They hadn't, so I suggested Janice be the first. "If now is your time," I suggested, "it's time to write a book of your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual cures. The book will give you credibility with other doctors." Doctors can't help everything. The world needs to know such cures are possible.

The fourth book was from Mark in Mexico. "It's amazing the cures we get for ADHD children," I said. "Your PhD research with my therapies showed 90.9% success within three weeks. Surely there's no better therapy for ADHD in the world." Mark agreed, and will write a book with me, showing parents how to help their children. Doctors can't help everything. The world needs to know such cures are possible.

So I'll support four authors with books on their version of healing cures. The point it, they do work. There are countless research studies showing how effective healing is. In doctors' surgeries, healers help 72% of patients doctors can't help.

Doctors can't help everything. The world needs to know such cures are possible.

A snapshot of a day can never do a lifetime justice, but hey ho, here's a snapshot of my day today.

So much happens most days, it's easy to overlook events, and be too "matter-of-fact". Today, an email written to a friend explaining my day today seemed appropriate for this blog. Lives are about helping others...

So here's three "helping others" things for today...

1. Help for poor peopleToday I'm clearing cupboards, drawers and wardrobes etc to give stuff to poor people who can't afford things. So far, there are five full sacks of very nice things that I don't really need. I usually advertise on a site called "Freegle". Poor people post free ads for what they need, and richer people post ads for nice stuff to give away free. No traders, just free giveaways to help those in need. I've given away £1,000's over the past few years. It's not all mine. Sometimes a tenant leaves one of my properties, but doesn't take their belongings. So I give it to poor people. Last year, one tenant left roller blades, Rayban sunglasses, and other quality goods that filled 35 sacks!!! It was worth lots of money, but hey, I like giving to help poor people. You should see people's happy smiles when they get something nice for free that they could not have afforded to buy.

2. Help for sick friendsThe rest of today I'm helping two friends who are unwell. One has depression, the other has pain from an injury. Sometimes, I'd rather help others than be helped myself. For example, if I have a flu, I just get over it myself. It's comforting and warming to accept help, but I'd rather no-one worries themselves over me for minor things. But if someone else is ill, I'm there as fast as possible, and as long as needed. My deep desire is to help others, or relieve their suffering. So if someone's ill, they can rely on me to support or do whatever they need to make them comfortable and help them return to good health.

3. Help for hopeful authorsReaders will have their gifts that can help others. As one of my gifts is writing, this evening I'm attending a writers' group. It's a professional group, for existing or potential published authors. I've invited a man I met recently, who said many people suggest he write a book on his scientific and mystical ideas on life, the universe and everything. I've offered to help him write his book. Normal such charges elsewhere are £1,000 for guidance from start to finish, to £5,000 - 20,000 if the book was written for him. But he's a poor guy, doing house clearances with a van, so I'll help him for free. I hope his book will make him lots of money to help his life, and give him prestige and other benefits.

I've invited a second man to the writers' group too. We met at a local church. After the service he said he wished to write a book on his 'strange' experiences of healing through the power of god. Such as when he placed his hands on a sick person to pray, and the person suddenly shot about 10 feet away from him, as if pushed hard. But he hadn't pushed at all, let alone hard enough to push the person 10 feet backwards. The person was cured. I've offered to help him write his book too. No charge - we met after he'd prayed in church!

Both men's books combine science and mystic experiences. Right up my street! When we have a gift, and opportunities to help others knocks at our door, we should answer the calls for help. If they work 2 hours a week for three months, their books will be ready for a publisher's decision.

I don't usually moralize on these blogs. But just for today, could you help others in three ways? 1. Could you give something to poorer people?2. Could you help someone, a little more, who you know is sick? 3. Could you use one of your gifts to help someone in need?

All this might seem a lot of work. But it doesn't take much time if you work fast, and don't waffle when helping or teaching someone. Then everything always seems quick and easy.

Strolling along the beach, one often sees incredible sights. The most incredible today was a giant of a man running towards me in swimming shorts, with muscles bulging everywhere, and tattoos bulging on the muscles.

The incredible bits were his gigantic size, and his tattoos which all signified something dark or dangerous. Evil-grinning skulls shone from each shoulder. Knives and swords were needled down each arm and leg. Each hip had realistic tattoos of gun-handles, as if the barrels were poked inside his shorts, ready to draw for a shoot-out.

The man stopped running near me, where his clothes lay on the beach. He picked up a towel to mop sweat from his face. He was an intriguing specimen of humanity.

I walked towards him. "Hello," I said. He didn't look at me, and just grunted a response. "Hello," I repeated, looking at the gun tattoos. "Do those guns mean you're a tough guy?" If you'd seen the size of the man, it was a fair question. I didn't expect his response though. He laughed.

"Maybe," he replied. "Maybe not."

"I'd rather see you with an angel tattoo," I smiled. Sometimes it's possible to confront in a way that's disarming. Not on this occasion.

"No way," he said emphatically. "An angel on my skin? I'd rather be dead."

I changed the subject. "So what's your job?" I asked, expecting him to work for something dark and dangerous. I didn't expect this response either.

"I'm an anaesthetist at the local hospital." A smile broke through his craggy features.

It didn't seem possible. So I told him my true story of being wheeled into an operating theatre, the anaesthetist swearing in a stressed-out way, and me offering him stress-reduction therapy before I was put under and unconscious.

"That's terrible," the giant replied. And he proceeded to reel off a long list of things my anaesthetist should have done for me, including which drugs should have been used. He ended by encouraging me to make a formal complaint, and explaining hospital complaint procedures.

"Thank you," I said. "If you're an anaesthetist, and doing such good work, why are all your tattoos about death and destruction? An angel tattoo would represent your good work."

He grinned, then explained softly. "I had a tough upbringing, in a tough neighbourhood. You wouldn't want to know what I've seen. These tattoos remind me there's a choice in life. You can choose darkness and evil, or you can choose the path of the angels. I made a choice."

"I hope if we meet again, I'll see at least one small angel tattoo on you?"

"Never! I'll never have an angel tattoo! Why would I want an angel outside my skin, when I'm an angel inside?"

It was my turn to grin. Angels on Earth come in all sorts of sizes and guises. It was simply the first size and guise I've met of that sort.

I saved this draft about ghosts having sex ages ago - there was too much else to blog about then. At the time, a video showed two ghosts having sex. It looked realistic, and didn't seem a con. Guess what? Since then, the video has been removed from at least three websites.

Here's the story. Ghost researchers met at a house in Euclid, Ohio, USA, because the owner, Dianne Carlisle, said she'd seen two ghosts having sex each other in her "living room". Or should it be, "living-and-dead room"?Dianne told the Fox affiliate in Cleveland, "It looks like ghosts having sex. You can see the lady's high heeled shoes!"Ohio-based investigator David Jones tolf HuffPost Weird News, "This has never been reported before. It would be interesting to know more about the house, especially [Carlisle's deceased sister], who supposedly left a voice-mail message from the afterlife. However, I don't think that has anything to do with [the sex], but I do wonder how long it's been going on." Jones added that he'd love to investigate this afterlife orgy. Amy Allan is sceptical. She's a paranormal expert and stars in the Travel Channel's "The Dead Files." Allan told HuffPost Weird News, "I have heard of people having sex with ghosts, but not this." She continued that there's not a ghost of a chance she'll film an TV episode of the horny haunted house, and joked, "It's better for the Playboy Channel, than the Travel Channel."

Another paranormal researcher, Alexandra Holzer says it's an unusual case, but it's not uncommon. Her father, Hans Holzer, pioneered in the paranormal field. She said, "These could be two spirits who knew each other in life and have a connection to the house. It's also possible that the ghostly lovers had no connection with each other when they were on Earth and simply found themselves in the After-world.Alexandra suggested the house needs good researchers, and psychics to communicate with any spirits that may be lurking. She said, "You have to speak to ghosts conversationally, and say something like, 'I can appreciate it that you have a connection with each other, but we have children here."

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See my weird-but-true first blog post on December 1st 2011, for an overview of my polymath, joyful and horrid fairy tale life. Taste the yummy, Godly, disgusting and loving ingredients of future posts - all truthful, with just a little artistic licence.

If writing is the fruit of sin, I must have sinned greatly. Otherwise how was I cured after decades of being 80% disabled; how did I earn merits at a university creative writing course for poetry, fiction and non-fiction; and how did I travel and lecture on TV and radio internationally? I must surely have sinned in wonderfully fun ways.